Improved towel and clothes-rack



-CHAUNCEY CARRIER, OF COLUMBUS, NEW YORK.

Letters Patent No. 82,691, dated October 6, 1868.

IMPROVED TOWEL AND CLOTHES-HACK.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, CHAUNCEY CARRIER, of Columbus, Chenango county, State of New Yolk, have invented an Improved Towel and Clothes-Rack; and I do. hereby declare the following description and accompanying drawings are sufficient to enable any person skilled in the art or science to which it most nearly appertain s to make and use my said invention or improvements without further invention or experiment.

I The nature of my invention and improvements consists in making a towel-rack or frame for spreading clothes or other goods, in which the projecting arms are held and supported in cylindrical cups, which revolve on a vertical rod or pin passing through the end of each arm and the bottom of each cup; said cups having a slot at one side to receive the arms, and four lugs on the inside of each, two on either side of the arm, to form a seat for the same, and ,each (except the top onelprojecting somewhat above the arm and lugs, and the whole being so graduated in size that the bottom of each fits into and turns in the top of the one next belowit resting on the tops of the aforesaid lugs. i

In the following description of my invention, the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, are referred to Figure 1 being an elevation of one of my improved racks.

Figure 2 a plan of one of the lower cups with its arm inserted.

A A are the arms or bars, upon which the articles to be spread for drying, &c., are to be'hung.

B B are cups, of cast or othr metal, into which the ends of the bars A A project, the pin C passing through the end of each arm and the bottom of each cup, and also through the top and bottom plates of the bracket D, so as to hold the whole securely together; each arm or bar with its cup turning freely on the pin or bolt C, either togetlier with or independently of the rest of the set.

In. fig. 2, the end of the bar A is seen extending into and across the cup B, and resting'against the lugs,

a a, projecting from the sides of the cup. It has thro'ughit a hole, 12, through which, and also through a corresponding hole in the bottom of the cup, the pin 'or rod C passes.

The tops of the lugs a a are somewhat below the top of the cup, and the cups are so graduated in size that-the bottom of each cup fits into and turns in the top of the one next below it resting on the tops of the lugs and the bar. By this arrangement and connection of cups the bars are more firmly held, will support a greater weight, and turn more easily and smoothly than when the usual construction is employed.

I claim the graduated cups B B, provided with lugs a a, to form a seat for the end of the bar, and so arranged that the bottom of each cup (except the lowest) may fit into and turn in the top of the one next below it, substantially as described.

CHAUNCEY CARRIER.

Witnesses:

E. D. HAYWARD, SILAS CLARK. 

